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' W tàm 'M I p ê ’. ■ «S * I * y l-l-V» 5 KÄ#! v N ; "•’ •. ' Ù 4~ 'S S i ï ¡ « U * 0p#g2 S ."u V>r,c* i 207 2nd tt I ■ E K ì HEKI hi',- f^RLa f,.'» r *?. "p ' '■ ii i '..., t . , / ‘«S*** Â & É jflS M ' L fcsaâJæ --J r ^ ■ -• fj . ?/. --L ■ J .: ... u > ,* :' Song Written By Franck Scott Key One Hundred Yean Ago. Franck Scott Key, the con o f John R o m K ey, an officer in the Revolutionary W ar, wan born in w hat wan then Frederick Coun ty, M aryland, August 9th, 1780. Although he w rote many ex cellent poemn, gained tame an an attorney and statesman and had a prominent part in the affairs ot his native state for years, he in known to posterity almost entirely as the author ot "Th e Star-Spangled Banner.*' Who w ill say that is not glory enough? K ey married M ary T a ylor Lloyd, o f M aryland, and they had eleven children. In 1801 he removed from Frederick, where he bad practiced law , to George tow n, D. C „ where be served as District Attorney under General Andrew Jackson. In 1814, during our W ar w ith Great .Britian, Admiral Cock- burn w ith his fleet entered the Chesapeake and announced to the Secretary o f State, James Monroe, that he proposed to take measures o f retaliation tor "w an ton destruction," as he called it, committed by the sol diers o f the American Arm y in upper Canada. H aving announced his pro gram , he quickly proceeded to "g e t even." He landed a force o f 5,000 men under the leader ship ot General Ross, who, w ith out successful Washington, W bfre House and other public buildings were burned. Fearing that the gathering Americans would cut o ff his return, R o m quickly retreated to the fleet. When the news o f the sack o f Washington reached Baltimore it did not require a prophet of the highest rank to predict what city was next on the British list for an exhibition of fireworks. The inhabitants, w ith great energy and determination, forti fied Fort McHenry on the Pat- apsco near their city, and pre- pared to make a stubborn resist ance. On their w ay back from Wash ington, after the attack, three British soldiers became separated from their comrades and wan dered on the property o f Dr. W illiam Beanes, an old and prominent resident o f Upper Marlborough. The doctor at once made them prisoners, but one o f them escaped, and finding his w ay to a body o f the Britkb, guided them back to the doctor’s residence, where they not only released their comrades, but hustled the old gentleman him self out o f bed at midnight and took him on board a British vessel w ith the declared intention ot hanging him a t the yard arm when daylight should enable them to do it well. Tidings of the old doctor’s dan ger came to Key, who was an in tim ate friend. He at once go t per mission from President Madison to attem pt his release. He ha stened to Baltimore and on a small vessel under a flag of truce, in the company -of John S. Skin, ner, Commissioner of Exchange, visited Admiral Cockburn .whose fleet was then in the Chesapeake. That officer explained the delay in hanging Dr. Beanes on the ground that it had been dis covered that the doctor had at one time been most humane and helpful to several wounded British officers. In view ot this record the Admiral announced that the doctor would be released, but as there was a certain im portant event pending, he would have to detain K ey and Skinner a little while, after which they could re turn to Baltimore. I t soon transpired that the im portant event referred to by the Adm iral was the contemplated destruc tion of F o rt McHenry, which guarded the city. K ey, Skinner and Dr. Barnes were placed on the ship "Sur prise" and given a front seat, so to speak, a t the spectacle. The fleet moved up the Chesapeake, disembarked the m ilitary forces forth e land attack, and on Tues day morning* September 13th, 1814, arranged itself in semi circular form and made ready to demolish the little fort that stood between them and their next bonfire. When all things were ready the three Americans were put aboard their own vessel but were kept under a guard o f sailors and marines. Then the bombardment began\ Sixteen frigates centered their fire on the little, low fortification. The range w as tw o and one-half miles and the 42-pounders o f the fo rt were not good for this distance, so the fleet sustained but little damage. All day long shot and shell rained on the fort and its brave defenders. The British were surprised a t the resistance, and a t sunset determined to w ork ov« the job. Accordingly they it right up through the ni A t midnight there was a lull in which the A dm iral! th at his land attack bad repulsed and its leader, R o m , killed. Then the moved nearer and redonbl fire, and the little fo rt b* answered bock gun for gun. So the long dreadful passed aw ay, and in the ing, in the long-a-coming me ing, "b y the dawn’s early the anxious eyes o f the Americans strained tow ard fo rt saw that "th e flag was there." It was there! It there! Thank God, it was: there! A t the same time, in g th at further "gettin g was not w orth w hat it cost, british fleet w ithdrew and more w as saved. On the back o f an K ey, then and there, in a o f patriotic fervor, w rote song which tells its own and which has become as leM as the Rag itself. The poem was printed at u d in « few d a y , it bad captnred Baltim ore. In a few more days it was set to an old air, "T o Anacreon in H eaven," and thus completed, went forth to sing its w ay into the hearts and lives Of all true Americans. Oh, my, can you me, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twHfeU's last i Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watohed warn so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bunting In aff, Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag waa still thera, Oh, oay does that star-spangled banuor yet wave, O'er the had of the free, end the boom of the brave? ’•£ i the foe'a I What is that which the bream, e’er the I As it fitfully blows, h e » conceals, half diselosea? Now it catehas the gleam of the morning’s first beam. In full glory redacted, now sUnea on the stream; T ie the star*panglad banner, oh! long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! (A ! thus be It e’er whan freeman shell stand Between thrir loved homes and the war’s desolation; Blest with viet’ry end peace, may the heav’n-reecued lead Praies the pow’r that hath nude end preserv’d us e nation; Then conquer we moat when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our tru st" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shell wave • ■O’er the land of the free end the home of the breve. Francis 8eott Kay. NO ONE CALLS IT All o f the parties in Kansas met in Topeka the other day to consider platforms. The Republicans endorsed sta^e and national prohibition. The Democrats endorsed state and national prohibition. The Progressives endorsed state and national prohibition. The Prohibitionists endorsed state and national prohibition. The Socialists declared vigor ously tor enforcement o f the Kansas prohibitory law . I t is wonderful how the dis credited farce ot prohibition has gripped the political parties of Kansas. «?v 7^*77* I, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1914 NEWBERG, YAM H ILL COUNTY, STORY OF THE STAR- SPANGLED BANNER \ B i *-■ ' ■ ■ VOL. XXVI* Hpi 5S ,'< V . ? - . .V iU / 'i â in r r * - -— -¡fc. J J i: w É l I • COLD FEET And a sour-stomach make cranky people. N ow you know you don’t w ant to be classed am ong the cranky ones. We have no suggestions tor the sour- stomach but one ot our new heaters w ill help out the cold feet. The biggest line o f new snappy stuff in beaten ever shown in Newberg is now on. display on our Mmple floor and our prices w ill stand comparison w ith any thing on the market o f the same dam . We’re selling them now. Come in early and get your choice while the line is complete. Larkin-Prince Hdwe. Co. MIDDLETON IA N KILLED AGRICULTURAL OCCUPAI BY ELECTRIC TRAIN On Wednesday evening the electric train due to arrive in Newberg at 7 o ’clock, struck John White, o f Middleton, a half mile west o f Sherwood, inflicting injuries from which he died as he was being placed on the tram. The engineer said that as he rounded a curve he saw some thing ahead on the track that he took to be a piece o f brown paper, but which a moment later he saw was a man wearing a brown slicker laying length w ays w ith the track. The engine was reversed, the brakes set and the histle sounded, but the man did not stir. The force ot the engine carried him about tw enty feet, w ith results as above stated. The body was placed on the train 'and taken back to Sher w ood and the county coroner called. The young man was 22 years o f age and a son o f S. White o f Middleton. Passengers on the train were told a t Sherwood that young W hite was a patron of the Sherwood saloons and that h r h a d M )tb n T . ■ h o rttM K l*. fore the accident in a drunken condition. One bottle of beer waa found on his person and an other where he was first hit by the engine. Passengers say he had appar ently laid dow n in a drunken stupor and w as fast asleep on the track. This probably tells the sad tale. Wasbington, D. C , Ang. 29.— There are 305,164 persons in Oregon th a t. « ork for a livin g and 88,114 ot them are employed upon the farm, according to a report which has ju st been issued by the United States Census Bureau. O f the persons engaged in agricultural pursuits, the bulk o f them are farm operators and farm laborers. The farm opera tors number 38,681; 37,292 o f whom are men and 1,289 are women. There are 27,136 farm laborers in the state being 26,- 269 males are males and 867 females. There are 1,408 dairy farmers in the state and they employ 589 laborers and eleven fore men. There are also 2,244 per sons in the state whose principal source of income is from stock raising. The number ot cow boys and sheep herders in this slate is 3,020. In the entire United States there are 71,580,270 persons over 10 years o f age and 38,- 167,336, or 58 per cent o f this number are engaged in gainful occupations. O f the gainfully oc cupied, 12,659,203, or 33 per cent are engaged in agriculture. There are 2,865,000 farm opera tors in the nation and they employ 5,975,000 laborers. ATIEVT TO ROB GASTON RANK Gaston, Oregon, Sept. 9 —After breaking into a blacksmith shop to steal tools to break in to a bank; after breaking the lock of Ott Friday, September 4, a t the back door o f the bank, blow the home ot the bride’s parents, M r. and Mrs. W a . Hagcdorn, blow ing the door o ff the iroi corner ot Ninth and River streets, safe therein, robbers g o t discour occurred the m arriage of their aged when they came to tbe daughter, Miss Clara, to Mr. manganese strong box within Dan Beilis, o f P o rt Williams, tbe sate in the Gaston State Washington. bank, and gave up their inten The ceremony took place at tion o f robbing the institution. high noon, Rev. G. E. Kienle, Tbe bank building was put up pastor o f the German M . E. last year. B. F. Purdy is presi church, officiating. dent and Graham Stapleton The attendants were Miss cashier, the results o f the night’s Helen H agedora, sister ot the w ork being found by them when bride, and Russell Williams. they opened for business. Only the relatives were present. Sheriff Reeves is looking forthe The bride w ore a beautiful workmen. _______ gow n o f silk crape de chine and lace w ith long veil and carried a handsome bouquet o f bride's roses, the groom being dressed in A t a recent meeting o f the city the conventional black. Beauti- council a contract was awarded tul asters adorned the handsome !to John G roff for paving Fifth home in great profession. A very j gtre^Tfor $2499.99. fine wedding dinner was served, j L G Newlin Rot the contract Through her pleasing and lov- \ for grading East Second street ing disposition the bnde has at 25 cents per yard, won the esteem o f her triends. Xhe bid o f the u s Rabber Co. She is a very accomplished for furnishing 500 feet o f Para- young lady, possessing all the gon hose at $1.10 per toot qualities needed to make a happy wa9 accepted. home and w ill fill her place in A petition was presented ask Kfc. The groom is a prosperous iog for tbe improvement of young business man. Meridian street from Second to Tbe youn couple left the same Ninth. afternoon for their new home. M any good wishes go w ith this That fine rain cleared the at mosphere, and everybody smiles. w orthy young couple. COUNCIL MEETING No. 48 CARRYING THE MAIL O f By W eight Washington, Sept. 8—In a final report submitted to Con gress, the Bourne Committee on R ailw ay M ail Pay has recom mended enactment ot a la w sub stituting space for weight as the basis o f railw ay m ail compensa tion and has recommended rates which w ill yield the railroad companies a revenue slightly 1 cm than the average revenue re ceived from the transportation o f passengers, tbe revenue in each instance being computed on a car-mile basis. I t is estimated that this w ill result in increasing the compensation o f the rail roads about $3,000,000 per an num, or slightly less than 5 per cent. The railroads contented that they were underpaid $15,- 000,000 per year. F o r m e r S e n a t o r Jonathan Bourne, chairman ot the com mittee, took occasion in submit tin g the report to call attention to the tact that Form er P ost master General Hitchcock had urgently recommended the enact ment of a bill for railw ay m ail pay which he later abandoned as unwise, and tbe Post Office Department, in tw o administra tions, has advocated tour d if ferent plans for compensating the railroads. Discussing the delay in filing the report, M r. Bourne says: "W hile I recognized the desir ability ot an expeditious conclu sion to oar w ork, I believed it more im portant th at we should d o our w ork thoroughly than I should regret extrem ely and be deeply humiliated if oar investigation had resulted, as did that o f the Post Office De partment, in our changing our attitude three times and ad vocating four radically differ ent measures. We should cer tainly forfeit all claim to the confidence o f congress if w e presented such a record o f vacil lation as did the department. If, in our anxiety to be expedi tions, we had repudiated three plans we had evolved, upon what theory could we expect congress to believe th at w e would tor any considerable length o f time, continue to advocate any new plan we might recom mend?” PORTLAND'S DRINK BILL The 385 saloons o f Portland are each estimated to take in, on an average, $10,000 per year. That means a tax upon the people ot Portland amounting to $3,850,000 per year. The greater part o f the wholesale price o f this staff is sent back east to outside corporations. The local people get the drunks, the crime, the headaches and dis order arising out o f the miser able tra flic. The eastern corpora tions get the money, and the taxpayers of Multnomah coun ty take care ot the product o f the rum shops. BIDS WANTED Notice is hereby given that the council o f the city ot Newberg w ill, up to 6 o ’clock p.m. on the 25th day o f September, 1914, re ceive bids for a $3,000 issue o f 6 per cent C ity Fark B.onds to be issued by said city o f Newberg. This notice is given by order o f the council o f city of Newberg. ThrM prood d esc andanti of Royal blood, brsd and soid by J. W. CUae, Redraood, Waah., to George Cooke, Hawaiian Islanda. Reading right to laft. Potar Pan Dated September 9th, 1914. 8th, aon of Bauehan Patar Pia, Grand Champion of Graat Britaln and tha National Oairy Show; WiUowmaor Buntie B., Champion two-year-old at 1918 Ida M. Woods, Pacific International; Wilkwmoor Nita, daoghtar of Drummondie, tha atra of WUlowmoor, tha world’o 1918 record cow, and whioh la now tha long diatanca Recorder o f the C ity o f Newberg. cow of AyraMre record. -coarta«? oi tb« Rum spirti ____ u « ;
